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The Imprisoner is a bulky demon that appears in Vergil's Downfall. It is able to rip up the ground and manipulate the debris. Imprisoners are first encountered when Vergil enters his version of Limbo City in Mission 02, although they are not fought until Mission 04.
Description
The Imprisoner is a musclebound demon with four massive arms and a porcelain, doll-like "face" that is actually the covering to its quad-lipped, viciously fanged mouth. It is able to rip up the ground and toss around the debris, as well as fling giant chunks of earth.
Story
As Vergil enters the Limbo City portion of Hell, he spots an Imprisoner chasing an apparition of Kat. He follows, at times distracting the Imprisoner to allow Kat to escape, and finally chases it off at the facsimile of St. Agares's Church. However, the apparition reveals her own demonic nature, taunting and then attacking Vergil, and he is forced to slay it.
Later, after having been convinced by an apparition of himself to get revenge on his mother for allegedly favoring Dante, Vergil returns to the Paradise portion of Hell and hears an Imprisoner attacking his mother, chuckling to himself that he'll be there soon to "rescue" her. He eventually arrives at the chapel where Eva is being manhandled by the Imprisoner and slays the beast, but then turns to her and taunts her by revealing that he "killed Dante", although in truth he only killed Dante's apparition.
After Vergil escapes Hell, a cadre of demons advances on him, led by an Imprisoner. The Imprisoner at first growls aggressively at Vergil, but recognizes his power and bows, then follows the triumphant Vergil along with the rest of his new army.
Behavior
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Strategy
A good way of taking care of an Imprisoner is to use Vergil's Just Charged attacks, Solar Flare and Atomic, which will launch the Imprisoner into the air, making him defenseless.
Vergil's Doppelganger can also destroy the Imprisoner's red tendrils if the doppelganger comes into contact with them. Using Doppelganger's Rapid Slash is an easy way to get rid of some of these tendrils without Vergil taking direct damage himself.
Trivia
- Defeating the first Imprisoner will reward the player with the You don't belong here award. This award's title is a reference to a line Vergil says to Jester in Devil May Cry 3.
- According to the developers, the Imprisoner was originally an abandoned enemy type designed for Dante's campaign in DmC, not Vergil's. It was eventually repurposed and changed dramatically to fit the needs of the Vergil's Downfall DLC campaign. [1]
Imprisoner from DmC's unlockable Concept Art
- This is further corroborated by the Imprisoner's concept art existing as an unlockable within DmC: Devil May Cry's original gallery.
Gallery
References
- ↑ https://devilmaycry.org/threads/so-i-worked-on-dmc.18074/post-562325 - VD dev: "The imprisoner was an abandoned concept from the main game, but we changed it dramatically for the DLC."